Unabashed

Acrylic with ink on canvas, 18 h x 24 w inches.

Notes:

Painted, poured and extruded acrylic layers
The construction of the painting is a set of playful experiments in the viscoelastic properties of acrylic gel and liquid media. These media dry to a transparent solid film. The media can be tinted with transparent paint colors, rendered translucent with opaque and semi-opaque colors, swirled, extruded, and poured over one another in various stages of drying. Since different gels and liquid media shrink by different amounts as they dry complex crazed, cracked, and pebbled glassy textures can be created by mixing and layering them. A wide range of layered and intertwined transparent patterns can be generated, with an incredible depth of color.

In Unabashed, acrylic paint and gel medium was extruded by hand through fine round, fancy ruffled and multi-hole nozzles using a pastry bag. The medium was lightly tinted. When extruded it forms shining light manipulating ribbons and nests of “acrylic vermicelli”, which can be obscured by a tinted clear film layer or piled up to create crazy clear gelid textures on the canvas.

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About The Nerdly Painter, Dr. Regina Valluzzi

Dr. Regina Valluzzi has an extensive scientific background in nanotechnology and biophysics. She explores abstract scientific concepts through complex
geometric paintings. Many of the subjects of her abstract drawings and paintings are taken from topics in Physics research. Soft Matter Physics and Biological Physics ideas are often seen, arising from Dr. Valluzzi's main area of research for many years. In addition to motifs and ideas drawn directly from molecular biology, biophysics, and nearby fields, her art often incorporates aspects of self-similarity, and elements from math and physics topics that have long held a fascination for her.

Her scientific accomplishments include over thirty articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, several patents, an encyclopedia chapter as a subject matter expert, and invited talks in the US, Europe, and Japan. She has been a scientist in the chemical industry, a green chemistry researcher, a research professor in the engineering school at Tufts, a start-up founder engaged in technology commercialization, a start-up and commercialization consultant, and a science-themed artist.

Dr. Valluzzi has always held a strong interest in the visual arts and in visual information, allowing visual arts ideas to permeate her technical work and vice versa. She was educated in Materials Science at MIT, obtaining a second B.S. degree in music with a minor in visual studies. During her PhD in Polymer Science and Engineering at the University of Massachusetts Amherst she completed a thesis requiring advanced electron microscopy, image analysis, and theoretical data modeling. These experiences provided the visual insights and experiences that inform much of her work as an artist.